The Myth of “Ethnic Conflict”

Beverly Crawford and Ronnie D. Lipschutz, (editors)

International and Area Studies Research Series/Number 98

1998

Acknowledgments

The chapters in this volume are drawn from the work of a study group on the political economy of "ethnic and sectarian" conflict convened by the co-editors, Beverly Crawford and Ronnie D. Lipschutz, on behalf of the Center for German and European Studies at UC Berkeley and the Adlai Stevenson Program on Global Security at UC Santa Cruz. The project received generous funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center for German and European Studies, the UC Systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and the Stevenson Program; to all we wish to express our gratitude. For comments and criticism, stimulating discussions, and grueling questions at the meetings where these papers were presented, we would like to thank Nick Biziouras, Daniel Deudney, Gail Kligman, Steve Krasner, Michael Kimmel, and those countless individuals who offered comments on the chapters in their various states of development. In particular, we would like to thank Steve Del Rosso of the Pew Charitable Trusts, who not only provided valuable criticism, but also helped shape the direction of the project as a whole. We also thank Robert Price, director of the Colloquium on the Politics of Cultural Identity at UC Berkeley, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, and the World Affairs Council of Monterey for the opportunity to present drafts of these chapters in public fora. For support of the publication of this project we thank David Szanton, executive director of International and Area Studies at Berkeley. Caroline Arnold expertly prepared the index, and we gratefully aknowledge her assistance. A finer editor than Bojana Ristich cannot be found; we are also most grateful to Stephen Pitcher, who typeset the manuscript, and Lisa M. Bryant who, together with Stephen Pitcher, designed the cover.